Underwood Crossing, Wyoming

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82633. It stands on Keyton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wagonhound Creek quadrangle.

Underwood Crossing within Converse County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Lance Creek quadrangle1:100000
1981 USGS Wagonhound Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Underwood Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 910 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 September 2003	Natural	107 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	CHEYENNE RIVER
21 August 2010	Natural	150 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	1230
11 August 2003	Natural	149 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HORSE
7 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	RIVER FIRE
4 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
29 March 1999	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	CLARENCE WEST
9 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LYNCH 2/3
9 October 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Weston County	LYNCH 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bill

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bill	24.7 miles	8
Whipple Hollow	44.2 miles	8
Birkner Hill	48.6 miles	8
Ross	50.0 miles	9
Lost Springs	50.4 miles	7
Shawnee	51.7 miles	9
Orpha	53.3 miles	9
Douglas	55.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1603856. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.